nickbp

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by nickbp 16y ago
More like "oh, you've got a Tesla? Isn't that the car company that sued Top Gear? Hahaha!"
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by nickbp 16y ago
(nitpick: Fremont)
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by nickbp 16y ago
Or if you have a family...
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by nickbp 16y ago
To the tech sector's credit, when we blow up, the damage is at least generally limited to ourselves.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Not mean spirited; realistic.
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by nickbp 16y ago
I think this is a side effect of employers who worry more about credentials than talent.
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by nickbp 16y ago
I disagree with your claim of their primary use. They're for installing software; the convenient upgrades and dependency management are merely a side effect of handling that task correctly. Also, from TFA, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by nickbp 16y ago
NC would conflict with the Free Redistribution criteria of the Open Source Definition[1], and BY would be the equivalent of the "obnoxious BSD advertising clause"[2]. And besides all that, I really don't think the world needs yet another GP
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by nickbp 16y ago
Nitpick: You can hide that fact when its inconvenient. I've found it rarely even comes up, unless you're talking about family with coworkers or something, and by that point you're probably already hired/funded/'in' and will have already ove
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by nickbp 16y ago
And everybody will have conflicting (even inconsistent) opinions about those decisions.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Minor nitpick on 2: Three mile island had no deaths.
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by nickbp 16y ago
AT&T also blocks installation of non-market software on their Android phones, so if you wanted to install a recent build of ConnectBot or whatever, you were SOL. That is, unless your phone can be rooted/reimaged.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Using that reasoning, so is a dictatorship.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Where'd the 58k go? It sounds like you need to get some control over your finances if it 'just disappeared'.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Gotcha, hadn't seen anyone trim the MM part before.
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by nickbp 16y ago
I don't understand your implication that striving in a career endeavor requires that you spend all your income with nothing going to savings. If anything, healthy savings will allow you to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity, and/or
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by nickbp 16y ago
Unless you really want to play with buying/selling individual stocks, you're probably best off buying a broad-based index fund, which effectively buys you a slice of the entire stock market. Eg VTSMX/VTSAX Also, are your 401k and IRA/Roth f
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by nickbp 16y ago
Android is effectively a modified Linux kernel with a custom userspace environment.
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by nickbp 16y ago
A couple of weeks later I received an email saying, "Thanks, but no thanks." Weeks? That's pretty obnoxious. The lack of feedback is pretty standard. Companies are scared stiff that they'll get sued for something they say, so they try to
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by nickbp 16y ago
Richmond VA? Was picturing Richmond CA until I got to the end.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Debian has "popularity-contest", which is an optional package that submits those statistics. The results can be viewed at http://popcon.debian.org/ Also installable in Ubuntu.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Something like workrave(.org) might be useful. Works on windows too.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Ubuntu 4? I'm also somewhat tired of upgrading every 6 months just so that I can have up-to-date applications; I may switch back to Debian proper.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Hello from the East Bay, home of the Hayward Fault Line: The last five major events were in 1315, 1470, 1630, 1725, and 1868, which have intervals of about 140 years (note that 2008 is 140 years from the major 1868 event). If a major earth
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by nickbp 16y ago
That only works as long as the segregation is securely maintained. The risk of hacks, subpoenas, or employee misbehavior is too high to make such a system trustworthy, in my mind at least. The best and simplest way is to simply maintain sep
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by nickbp 16y ago
(=゜-゜)ノ UTF is in style
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by nickbp 16y ago
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center is an anti-nuclear public interest organization dedicated to securing a safe, nuclear-free world. The Center was formed to provide reliable information and public education on all aspects of nuclear pow
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by nickbp 16y ago
They're likely more interested in obtaining hops from which to attack other machines.
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Being shy about how much I make(littlemissmoneybags.blogspot.com)
6 points by nickbp 16y ago|8 comments
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by nickbp 16y ago
If someone's too air-headed to understand the utility of backups, why would they pay $100/yr to do it? And that $100 would only get you 20GB, so you'd be limited to a total of around 2.5 of those 1080p movies you're apparently throwing arou

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